Cake tray and cooler



Feb. 11. 1925. 527,141

A. M. KIRKPATRICK ET AL CAKE TRAY AND COOLER Filed oat/4, 1923 INVENTQRS A TTORNE YS;

Patented Feb. r7, mas. 1,527,141

ANNA M. KIRKPATRICK, or wnsr nerarnrrn, o-nro, AND enonon ROSS KIRK- PATRICK, or new YORK, n. Y.

CAKE TRAY AND COOLER.

Application filed October 1, 1923. Serial No. 666,560.

To all whom it may concern: plate designated generally by the numeral 50 Be it known that we, ANNA M. KIRK- 10. The plate is formed with four grooves PATRICK and GEORGE E. Knznrarmcn, citi- 11, two of the grooves at right angles and Z6118 of the United States of America, and bise ting th respective id f th l t 5 residents, respectively, Of West Lafayette, in and the other two extending between the the county of Coshocton and State of Ohio, corners. 55 and the City Of New YOl'li, borough Of Man- On the plate at each orner a member 12 hattan, in the county and State of Pier? is directed outwardly in the plane of the York, have invented a new and improved plate and integral therewith and then Cake Tray and Cooler, of which the followformed into an oblique leg 13, the lower ing is a description. end 14 of which is directed outwardly to 60 Our invention relates to a. device on which constitute a foot. a cake may be placed after baking and the At each side of the plate is formed an general object of the invention is to provide edge member 15 integral therewith and di- 15 a cake tray that will be efficient for the coolrected downwardly from the plane of the ing of the cake and eificient also for the pl t id members merging On d d 5 storing, carrying, or serving of a cake and lines into the body f th l t Th mm well adapted for receiving a pie instead of a bers 15 constitute handholds and in order cake. that they may be efficient as such they termi- The invention furthermore has: for an ob-- nate above the lower ends of the legs 13.

ject to provide a device of the indicated class The grooves 11 provide for accurately which can be readily and economically cutting a cake into four equal parts or the manufactured with the minimum munber of cutting of a pie into triangular pieces. Suboperations and which will embody the necesdivisions of the cake or pie may be readily 25 sary strength and thus not be liable to bemade between adjacent lines 11, approxiconic deformed even by long continued use. mate accuracy in cutting being quite possi- An important object also of our invention ble in view of the grooves: 11. is to provide on the holder handholds so The handheld members 15 enable a performed and disposed to promote 0011- son to handle the device with convenience 3o venience in handling the device as well as and in addition serve to stiifen the plate.

materially contributing toward the CllCUli- Moreover, the members 15 being sustained so tion of air beneath the holder for the rapid materially above the lower ends of the legs cooling of the cake or pie. 1?), there is an ample circulation of air belhe nature of our invention and its distin neath the plate to promote the cooling 35 guishing featu es and advantages will more thereof.

clearly appear as the discription proceeds. The form of the described device permits Reference is to be had to the accompanyof a compact nesting of a plurality of the ing drawings forming a part of this specidevices in storing or shipping. In practice fication, it being understood that the drawa hole 16 is formed near one side edge to 40 ings are merely illustrative of one example receive a nail or the like for hanging the deof the invention. vice on a wall or door.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a combined cake We would state in conclusion that while tray and cooler embodying our invention; the illustrated example constitutes a practi- Figure 2 is a vertical section in the plane cal embodiment of our invention, we do not indicated by the line 2-2, Figure 1. limit ourselves strictly to the exact details In carrying out our invention in acherein illustrated, since, manifestly, the 9 cordance with the illustrated example the same can be considerably varied without deholder is formed from sheet metal and given parture from the spirit of the invention as the form of an approximately rectangular defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a device of the class described comprising a rectangu- 5 lar plate adapted to hold a cake or pie, said plate having grooves in its upper surfaceat right angles to each other and bisecting the sides of the plate and extending to the extreme side edges thereof, said plate aside from said grooves presenting a top surface in a single plane and extending to the extreme side edges, said edges lying in said plane.

Mas. ANNA M. KIRKPATRICK. GEORGE ROSS KIRKPATRICK. 

